Sentence examples for how laudable from inspiring English sources

But should the DEA be meddling in any operations beyond its brief, no matter how laudable?

How laudable... how far-seeing... but why don't we just do a Scarlett O'Hara and think about it tomorrow?

But that investment must truly be in basic research and not tied to the applications of any specific company, industry or social goal, no matter how laudable.

Even after Sept. 11, 2001, Mr. Gates said, "in the absence of a draft, for a growing number of Americans, service in the military, no matter how laudable, has become something for other people to do".

In an article that included a stinging reminder of the role Mr. Hart played as the antiwar campaign manager of George S. McGovern's disastrous 1972 presidential campaign, he asserted: "No matter how laudable or well-intended, the anti-war, peace-at-almost-any-price position is a loser for Democrats".

No matter how laudable the intention, the results proved disastrous.

How these laudable ends are to be achieved is less clear.

We all know how the laudable artistic and intellectual standards of one age become the limiting conventions of the next.

Her whole post is well worth a read: she considers talking kids through a disappointment, and how the laudable principle of "it's not whether you win or lose, but how you play the game" can mask the value of disappointment, which "in itself isn't such a bad thing.

Only time will tell, however, whether and how these laudable plans will actually be put into practice.

A birthday is a good time to think about one's past, and how a strange, laudable young man becomes and remains a strange, laudable man.